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  • Philip Roth Considered

    The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer

    by Steven Milowitz ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    This book comprehensively surveys Philip Roth's published and unpublished works, focusing on the thematic unity which binds them together: the memory of the Holocaust and the altered universe born of that memory. The Holocaust is understood as the orienting event for Roth's fiction and non-fiction, the force that surrounds the characters and the narratives at all times. Roth's obsession with ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

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    Classic Fairy Tales from Global Folklore

    by Andrew Lang ...
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  • James Baldwin: The Last Interview

    and other Conversations

    by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ... Read more

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  • The Portable Walt Whitman

    by Walt Whitman ...
    A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short storiesWhen Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the ... Read more

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  • Toni Morrison

    by Pelagia Goulimari ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Toni Morrison's visionary explorations of freedom and identity, self and community, against the backdrop of African American history have established her as one of the foremost novelists of her time; an artist whose seriousness of purpose and imaginative power have earned her both widespread critical acclaim and great popular success.This guide to Morrison’s work offers:an accessible introduction ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Exile's Return

    A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

    by Malcolm Cowley ...
    The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Huck Finn's America

    Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece

    by Andrew Levy ...
    A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain’s writing of America’s favorite icon of childhood, Huckleberry Finn: “A boldly revisionist reading of Twain’s Huckleberry Finn…Twain’s masterpiece emerges as a compelling depiction of nineteenth-century troubles still all too familiar in the twenty-first century” (Booklist, starred review).In the “groundbreaking” (Dallas ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

    Edited by Justine Tally ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Beneath the American Renaissance

    The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

    by David S. Reynolds ...
    The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David ... Read more

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  • Understanding David Mamet

    by Brenda Murphy ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An introduction to the one of the most influential contemporary American playwrightsUnderstanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction prose as well as drama. Over the past three decades, Mamet has written more than thirty produced plays and garnered recognition as one of the most ... Read more

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  • Muriel Rukeyser's the Book of the Dead

    by Tim Dayton ...
    The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S. 1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible disaster, an undetermined number of men—likely somewhere between 700 and 800—died of acute silicosis ... Read more

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  • Trinity of Passion

    The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade

    by Alan M. Wald ...
    The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD